Genesis Doesn't

[chrisbid]

time to revive this puppy

Strider Returns - probably the biggest disappointment of all time. Strider was such a fast paced, kickass sci-fi futuristic game, and what does US Mold give us? "Grand Master kidnaps your girlfriend, go through the forest, cave, and a bunch of other generic stages to save her... but dont move as fast as you did the first time you beat me"

Beast Wrestler - slow, choppy one on one fighter

Technocop - already mentioned

Double Dragon - looked great, horrid controls... though i guess you could say the same thing about the arcade version

[davepesc]

Since we're reviving this, here are the worst games on my favorite console:


Heavy Nova: This is the worst game ever. Period. You "control" a robot as it slowly walks down a straight corodor dodging falling rocks that explode if you punch them.

At the end of the corrodor, you square off against another robot in a street fighter-type showdown. Unfortunately, while there are animations for punching and kicking, your limbs don't actually project forward, so you have to be roght on top of your opponent to hit, and it's a gamble at that point too.
Luckily, you can jump to avoid attacks. Did I mention that once you jump, you are invincible. That's right, the jumping animation can not be interrupred by anything.

Rubbish.


After that, I never liked any of the Genny football games, but a lot of people did, so whatever.

[crazyjackcsa]

BOOO! to the person who said subterrania was no good. that game was fantastic!

Worst on the System for me: Batman Forever, Eternal Champions (I know, I just don't dig it) and Toy Story was Pretty Looking, but it was also pretty bad.

[B - Mark]

My list of worst games for Mega Drive / Genesis.

Genesis doesn´t!

- Back to the Future III
- Barney Hide and Seek
- Double Dragon III: The Rosetta Stone
- Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls
- Shaq Fu
- Street Smart
- Sword of Sodan
- World Heroes

[7th lutz]

Am i the only person who loved pit fighter for genesis? I think its the best conversion of the arcade game, and i enjoyed it thoroughly.....it even got almost all Red-happy-faces on gamepro....I LIKE that game

I liked it myself.

[B - Mark]

Am i the only person who loved pit fighter for genesis? I think its the best conversion of the arcade game, and i enjoyed it thoroughly.....it even got almost all Red-happy-faces on gamepro....I LIKE that game :)

I liked it myself.

Me too.

I like Pit Fighter for Genesis / Mega Drive.
In my opinion, this is the best version of this game after the original Arcade version.

In my opinion Pit Fighter for Super NES is the worst version of the Arcade game.

[GiantPooka]

It's one of my favourite consoles, but there are some real stinkers...

* Awesome Possum (Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt)- Looks like someone finally got round to making a mascot character even more annoying than Bubsy. He talks too much, he cannot be controlled like a normal person, and only Sparkster can get away with being a possum and having his own game.

* Strider II- Yay, let's get rid of any of the redeeming factors from the original Strider and make it slower, choppier, and make it not fun to play at all! Rock on!

*Back to the Future Part III- I suspect the first level was made impossibly hard to cover up for the fact that there's only 3 levels afterwards. In the end, I had to cheat to see how long the game went on for. Absolutely terrible.

* Insector X- Personal vendetta here- it's nothing like the arcade game it's based on, replacing the vibrant colourful graphics with dingy, ugly ones. And messing up the gameplay in the process.

[DigitalSpace]

A couple more I don't care for:

Cosmic Spacehead - Decent concept ruined by bad controls.
Air Diver - Mentioned earlier, and indeed bad. And boring.

And I actually like Joshua & The Battle of Jericho a little. It gets tough a bit too early but I wound up spending more time with it than I thought I would - and I didn't regret a single minute of that time.

Sub-Terrania had its flaws but I thought it was decent... worth at least the buck I paid for it, anyways.

[theshizzle3000]

The genesis port of Pirates of the Dark Water it was completely a let down compared to what was on the SNES.

[Three-P]

Shaq Fu suckz for both SNES and Genesis.

I make it a point to never argue with someone who's right. *pimp-slaps a copy of Shaq-Fu.*

Another real disgrace for the Genesis was Sword of Vermilion. That game should've come with a pre-written suicide note, reading, "To whom it may concern, I can't take the pain, anymore! Good-bye, cruel world! Sincerely, 'sign here.' P.S.-Don't play Sword of Vermilion. That's what drove me to this!" *pimp-slaps a copy of Sword of Vermilion.*

[Superman]

The first game that came into my mind when I thought of bad Genesis games was Dark Castle. I remember looking at the box and thinking to myself, this looks like it could be a fun adventure game.

Well, I was wrong!

[goemon]

It's just carrying on the Hydlide tradition of extreme mediocrity. There was another game in the series, released on the Sega Saturn early in its life. Virtual Hydlide was a Hydlide game, except in 3D and with an overly burly knight as the star. I heard it was better than the first two games, but only marginally.

Quoted for truth. There was also a Famicom game, Hydlide 3, which was better than the first, but also very flawed.

"Hydlide: You don't expect too much, and we don't want to try to hard. It's win/win!"

[bangtango]

Having played under 100 games on the system, most of them the "classics", I can only name a few bad games on the Genesis.

-Cybercop
-the first Hardball game (hitting is way too hard but the sequels were a little easier)
-NFL 95 (very weak compared to the other Sega football games and they even cut things that appeared in earlier versions)

[Three-P]

Music was decent in Super Hydlide but the gameplay and graphics are pretty damn hideous and pathetic.

With a name like Hydlide, you can't expect much. No offense, but from what I saw on YouTube, I'm glad I missed this one.

[RadiantSvgun]

Rock n' roll Racing
Whip Rush
Sword of Sodan
All of the Valis ports outside the Turbo are bad to me, or it could be that Valis isn't that good in the first place.
Beavis and Butt-head

For some reason I think that genesis has the better version of Battletoads and Double Dragon.

[Gabriel]

I didn't see X-Perts mentioned. No list of the crappiest Genesis games is complete without X-Perts.

The game came out at the abrupt end of the Genesis's lifespan when Sega of Japan in their infinite wisdom killed the console. It was based on Eternal Champions, which was cool, but was a franchise Sega of Japan was dead set on killing because they were obsessed with Virtua Fighter (which wasn't as popular in the US). The idea was that you played Shadow and infiltrated an enemy secret base. It also was to use pre-rendered sprites, ala Donkey Kong Country, for an improved graphical look.

However, the game that was released seems like it was completely unfinished. There's basically just one level, and the main game activity is standing at interface consoles and waiting for your character to finish what they're doing so you can move on to the next interface console. The animation is choppy and things just reek of incompleteness. It really seems like the game reached the point where the very basic structure of the game could be demoed and the higher ups suddenly said "Ship it!"

I saw this game in a store for $80. I almost grabbed it, but I decided I had better rent it first. I'm glad I did. I've seldom played such a turd.

[Cinder6]

No WarpSpeed? That one is pretty bad. Then there's Art Alive, which, while not a game, sucks at what it tries to be.

[knicksfan89]

dark castle was THE worst megadrive game I agree, Aquatic games, Namco baseball Crystal's pony tale, barney's hide and seek and fantasia are also among the few bad games for the system, but there are too many to mention as far as bad games are concerned

[PsychedelicShaman]

I have to throw a game in here simply due to the stupidest trick of all time pulled on us by the programmers

X-MEN - the original one. When they make you RESET THE SYSTEM after you beat Mojo. Lamest thing ever. I wouldn't have ever figured that out if I hadn't thrown my controller at the system after getting to that point three times and not figuring out what to do. Got a bulls-eye on the reset button and finally got to finish the game.

X-Men was a great game...one of my favorites on the genesis. Sure the reset thing is retarded, but it's like saying MGS is bad because you have to switch controller ports.

[KeyserSoze61]

...which is why I always pass up the 6 or 8 Genesis consoles at every thrift I go to...if it was so much better than the SNES, why does no one want them anymore, as opposed to NES (which I see at thrifts but are always priced twice as high as Genny's) or SNES, which I hardly ever see in the wild? IMO, the SNES has aged MUCH better than the Genesis.

For me, growing up as a (S)NES person, I recently purchased a Nomad/Genesis auction, and I'm loving it. The Genesis came out before the SNES, and clearly was weaker when it comes to graphics and sound. But does that matter? If we cared about the "best" graphics/gaming technology, wouldn't we all be playing the latest Halo clone or Call of WWII: Kill even more Nazis!

There are some fantastic games on the system, and they really don't get much press anymore. Not too many people collect for it, so the burden on your wallet is far less. Prices are higher for Nintendo stuff b/c there is greater demand for it; they won the console wars of yesteryear and are again regaining a stranglehold.

[KeyserSoze61]

no way, subterranea rules! then again, solar jetman was probably one of my top 10 favorite NES games...

sure it's like controlling a ball bearing on a steel plate, but that was the fun of the game, IMO. once you master the controls, it just flows so nicely...

Exactly. I love the game. It combines Lunar Lander with side-scrolling shooting action. That I found a stack factory sealed copies of it last week makes it even cooler. Nothing like tearing into a brand new, yet 13 year old, game.

[Barbarianoutkast85]

I own 661 Sega Genesis games so I'll give you my list of bad Genesis games.
Hard Drivin'
The Ooze
Risky Woods
Tom and Jerry: Frantic Antics
Action 52'S
Izzy's quest for the olympic rings
The Humans
Chiki chiki boys
Bass Masters Classics
Dark Castle
Stormlord
MathBlaster Episode 1
The Great Waldo Search
Shaq Fu

Thats what I can think of right off the top of my head

[zektor]

Revival of this thread once again...

Someone listed "Last Battle" as a horrible game.

Nonsense! This is one of my absolute favorite titles. One of the best titles for the system imho.

Now, Gadget Twins....this is a game that just makes me utterly sick.

[RASTAN]

Well I've got a few of my own I can't stand on the Mega Drive...

Shiten Myo (Shadow Blasters)
---GOD this game not only plays like crap, but
my actual turds look better than what it's trying
to pass off as graphics. It's basically a sub par
NES/Famicom game with watered down 8-Bit looking
graphics on a 16-Bit cart. Horrible, Horrible side
scrolling adventure game.

RED ZONE
---I thought what the developers tried to pull
off was admirable, but the game was just horrid
to play, especially those overhead 3-D parts flying
around in a AH-64 Apache gunship.

Techno Cop
---Piss poor side scrolling RGS meets Adventure
game [yes I know it was already mentioned, but
it's a crappy game!]. OUTLANDER ended up being
what Techno Cop wanted to be, and even that
title had it's issues.

[Xizer]

Do Sega CD 32X games count?

Today, I played Night Trap for the Sega CD 32X. It was... not fun.

The video quality wasn't pleasant. I would have expected better for a two-disc game with the power of the Genesis, Sega CD, and Sega 32X backing it.